May 17, 2026
Blogs
Teesdale businesses tell of energy…
DALE shopkeepers say they will have to get creative to survive amid skyrocketing energy bills. A…
Major exhibition of Raymond Briggs’…
THE first major exhibition about the graphic novelist and picture book maker Raymond Briggs is coming…
Test Drive: Subaru Forester e-Boxer
Ian Lamming has his fill of Subaru’s Forester e-Boxer THERE’S something comforting about a tip run.…
Warm Winter’ appeal will help…
SPIRALLING fuel and food costs has prompted a foodbank to launch a Warm Winter scheme to…
Proposal for tens of thousands…
A MASSIVE solar farm is being planned on the edge of Barnard Castle to help GlaxoSmithKline…
Hike will fund arts bursary…
COMMUNITY choir members are limbering up for a mammoth 73-mile hike to raise money for a…
Superb Swaledales go on show…
PERFECT summer conditions in upper Teesdale meant that the Swaledale sheep on show at Langdon Beck…
Drones may help beat crime…
THE cost of rural crime in County Durham fell by almost 30 per cent in 2021…
Test Drive: The New Kia…
Ian Lamming joins a new breed of hypermilers in Kia’s super-frugal Niro WITH fuel prices wavering…
Turn Barnard Castle pink to…
CANCER Research campaigners aim to “Turn Barney Pink” for a week next month to raise awareness…
This week’s Teesdale Mercury is…
This week’s Teesdale Mercury is in the shops and here are the headlines… Massive solar farm…
Witham panto is back (oh…
PANTOMIME returns to Barnard Castle’s art centre not once but twice this year.Along with the traditional…






















